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"Ranking and Selection Methodology - Part I" |
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Wednesday, October 18, 2000 |
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3:30 p.m. [Coffee & cookies in BSB-202 at 3:00 p.m.] |
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BSB-108 |
In this talk, an introduction to the area of Ranking and Selection Methodology will be presented. Various formulations and approaches to the underlying problem will be outlined.
Professor Panchapakesan received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in the early 1970s. He is a renowned expert in the area of Ranking and Selection Methodology. In addition to writing numerous papers in this important area of Statistics, he has also coauthored a classic book on this topic (jointly with Professor Shanti Gupta) published by John Wiley & Sons in 1979. He retired recently after having been on the faculty of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Over the years, he has served in the Editorial Board of many journals including Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Communications in Statistics and American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.
The references below, suggested by the speaker as useful background for this talk, have been placed on reserve at Thode Library (STATS 770: Statistics Seminar).
Gupta, S.S. & S. Panchapakesan (1996). Design of experiments with selection and ranking goals. In S. Ghosh & C.R. Rao, eds., Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 13. Elsevier Science B.V., pp 555-585.
Gupta, S.S. & S. Panchapakesan (1985). Subset selection procedures: review and assessment. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences 5, pp 235-311.